AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Dixon Green: Why It Occurs and How to Stop It
Stop here for a moment if the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Normally, when your engine hasn't run, it's emptied and thoroughly purged where the vehicle is around Dixon Green. Not happened yet? Below, the rest of the page covers the reasons it happens and the how to prevent it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Plenty of modern diesels in Farnworth, like those in Dixon Green, carry on two fluids; the motor takes only your diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
Every tank has one filler of its own. Many of vehicles share a single flap for both, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less often, normally from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in that gap that the error happens.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place in Dixon Green
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the car, and running dry leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Medlock Close, perhaps outside Grapes Inn on the way home that evening.
New-to-you vehicles are second, as well. Hire cars, new motors and company motors place their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
No part stops the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. New Bury or the middle of Dixon Green: it takes the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt in Dixon Green or a driveway over in Moses Gate. A few seconds, that's all.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler is if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Moses Gate.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
Wherever across Greater Manchester the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Ramsay Avenue, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Finish once your tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, pour slowly using the own spout.
- Close the cap, and look again — making sure the diesel filler stayed shut throughout. Only then, start your car.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Dixon Green?
Brief list, then. Top of that: the engine stays off. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the car on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Gulf or the Shell, ask the staff to help push the car away from the pump. If you are on your own drive around Dixon Green, leave the vehicle where it is.
Already started? Stop once it's sensible, then turn off. Leave the M61 — under a mile out of Dixon Green — at the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Salford, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Dixon Green.
What takes place when we get there around Dixon Green
We come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside The Ferns Primary Academy, near St George with St James or on your own drive. Both the work and the quote depend on three replies — what fluid, what amount, and whether it's run — so we ask. During the call itself, you are told our price — before anything else.
Then that tank is emptied and the fuel system purged thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. Testing comes last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the fuel filter is cleaned or changed if necessary. The motor is fired up next and tested to confirm it runs correctly, all before our technicians leave.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour once our technicians arrive, provided your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a busy forecourt yet quiet after dark beside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Dixon Green
Dixon Green is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated approximately 6.6 miles from Salford and 170.5 miles from London. Dixon Green sits at an elevation of 112 metres, surrounded by other local neighbourhoods such as New Bury, Harper Green, and Highfield. Dixon Green is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which reflects the typical residential development patterns of the region. Dixon Green has a population of around 9387 people, according to recent estimates.
Dixon Green and Greater Manchester: AdBlue drains across the area
Dixon Green is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the places near it, Harper Green and Highfield among them, across the BL postcode area. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting BL4 9.
The car stays put. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Farnworth Cricket Club, a lay-by on the way to Ellesmere Park, a drive. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Our Lady of Lourdes & St. Gregory's Parish? Close to a border? Asking beats assuming, so ring.
For Dixon Green motorists, the short version
Tip no AdBlue until you have read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it where it is, wherever in Greater Manchester: switch it off then ring 0333 366 0103.